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	NEVER Stop Smiling (Weird Dystopian Roleplaying) Regular price: $10.00 Bundle price: $3.19 Format: PDF	2nd Edition Beta now live! NEVER Stop Smiling is a weird fiction game set in post-apocalyptic dytopia.  An unknown cataclysm tore apart the Earth and decimated humanity.  "Cursed lands" and "wild places" have subsumed the world. The Happy Place is one of the walled cities housing the remnants of mankind.  There it is literally the law to NEVER Stop Smiling.  Players explore the dystopian society of The Happy Place and mysteries of the broken world they live in.  Characters usually cannot die, but can be lost to Aberration.  If a character dies, they will mysteriously resurrect off-screen and return to the story. However, the ressurection is flawed, leaving behind a disturbing resonance of instability.  The mysteries of the world can also be too much for the mind and soul to bear. ...
	Anarchy Goat Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	One page TTRPG about playing a suddenly sentient anarchist goat.  Simple d6 Motif system. Great concept. Not a whole lot to it. Go be an anarchy goat. That's the game....
	Animatica (Mixed Media Animated Multiverse) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: Watermarked PDF	Dive into a world of animated madness! Animatica is mixed-media universe containing characters of countless genres. Stop-motion, puppeteered, 3D CGI, sketch drawing, and traditional cartoon characters all co-exist in a sprawling cross-genre multiverse. Create any kind of animated or puppeteered character you want. Explore infinite 'verses! For every type of animation, subgenre, and even individual fictional world, there exists a 'verse. Franklin, a cross-genre and mixed-media megacity, is a major hub for travel between the 'verses and a common setting for mixed-media character groups. The playtest module includes a description of four other 'verses as well. You can also easily create your own genre and medium specific worlds. Simple character creation and rules. Animatica uses a light d...
	Arthur's Legacy (Arthurian Modern Fantasy - Main World Guide) Regular price: $10.00 Bundle price: $3.17 Format: PDF	Avalon rises and legends are Reborn!  Take on the role of a Knight, a reincarnated mystical warrior in service to immortal Nobles.  Confront the return of magic to the modern world and explore the mysteries of this Age.  Become a new legend as you (re)discover your true nature. Explore a rich setting with a modern take on classic tales!  King Arthur and his bastard son, Mordred, have returned with the rise of Avalon.  After a short but brutal civil war, they make a fragile peace and form the Kingdom of Avalon.  Arthur Pendragon rules as High King and Mordred Pendragon is heir apparent as First Prince, jointly ruling House Pendragon.  The rise of Avalon and Avalonain civil war throws the world into chaos, but most nations come to some accord with the Reborn in the aftermath. Each region a...
	Ballroom Ugly (The Bloodless Bloodsport of the Ball) Regular price: $2.50 Bundle price: $0.79 Format: PDF	You have been invited to your first ball, a grand gala at that! This is your chance to make a good first impression as an independent person and keep the invites coming. Will you impress upon the host and special guests of your fine graces? Or will you prove a boor, shamed from the dance by ill-regard? But this is no lax party! Your actions here and the connections you make will determine your fortunes and well-being in the coming year. Will you have the sensibilities to make amends and forge deals with quiet grace? Or will you flub your opportunities, creating disruptions and offending other guests? Put on your finest wear and finest smile! It is time to make your true debut and shine!  Based on a condensed hack of the Motif Game Framework, Ballroom Ugly will support single player, du...
	Bitter Birds Baking Brittle Bread (Concrete Postmodern Hyperfantasy Unstory Roleplaying) Regular price: $2.50 Bundle price: $0.79 Format: PDF	words have no meaning here Empty breaths. Mindless sounds. It does not matter. Words Mean Everything Here Shades of meaning. Chains of thought. On a winter's evening, I saw bitter birds baking brittle bread in an oven of skulls. What the BLEEP is this game? Bitter Birds Baking Brittle Bread (5B) is not a normal roleplaying game or storygame. There is no coherent sense of plot. There may not even be a continuous sense of character. Events may or may not follow each other. Even where there is logic and causality, unexpected consequences, absurdist twists, and surreal hyper-chains dominate. Forget Indoctrination Leave behind all sense of “plot” and character progression. Forget everything you know about act structures, characterization, and meaningful stories. This is not that kind o...
	Bloodmuse: Murderhobo Modern Art (Absurdist Fantasy TTRPG) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	Twisted Art Venture into the world of Murderhobo Modern Art with Bloodmuse! Take on the role of semi-retired adventurers that use monster and beast cadaver materials to create gruesome avant-garde art. Balance your art and adventures with a web of social obligations and managing your domain, a neglected but large neighborhood in a major city.  Dive deep into indie film style noir surrealism or take it to heights of silliness and absurdity! Explore what it means to be an epic hero, both the traumatic burdens and transforming into something more than mortal. Be ridiculous with grusesomely comedic art installations. Experiment and explore the possibilities of high-level shennanigans. Bloodmuse includes: Simple 3d6 Motif-based system with deep results. Oracle for low prep, GM-less, and sol...
	Dark Santa Holiday Special (One Page Holiday Horror Roleplaying) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	Ho! Ho! Ho! Behold the snow! The storm is on the way! Oh! No! No! Nowhere to go! Dark Santa come to play! Run and hide! Before you die! Krampus gets revenge! Hungry elves! Reindeer hell! Fear the nearing end! Dark Santa Holiday Special Sponsored by Thought Police Interactive You and your friends discovered Krampus was real last Christmas. It was an accident. Who really expected that stupid book to actually work? It was a hellish Christmas as dozens, even hundreds, of children were kidnapped. All of them were horrible beaten and chained. Some were even devoured. As the ones who summoned him, only you could stop him. And you did. You tracked down Jack Frost and made a deal for an ice sword. With it and your ingenuity, you and your friends killed Krampus. Oops. Now Santa has been filled w...
	DICK PUNCH EVERY SUIT - Corporate Revenge TTRPG Regular price: $10.00 Bundle price: $3.17 Format: PDF	Corporations went too far. Executives too out of touch. Managers cared too little. Workers had too much. The REVOLUTION began. Office buildings are now hardened fortresses. Even a minor delivery undergoes deep background checks before gaining entry. Full files and work history were generated on your behalf. You are part a key REVOLUTIONary cell, after all. In place for months, you finally receive the signal. It is time. You must fulfill one simple mission: DICK PUNCH EVERY SUIT. DICK PUNCH EVERY SUIT is roleplaying game designed for 4-7 players, played in one or a series of sessions lasting 2 to 4 hours. All the players play roles, collectively telling the story of the anti-corporate REVOLUTION and your DICK PUNCHing action. Uses a simple d6 system for fast resolution. Play foc...
	Dinosaur Wizards in Space (2 page mini-RPG) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	Dinosaur. Wizards. In Space. Maintenant en français ici! Be one of the few surviving dinosaurs. Who's a wizard. In space. Explore a wonderful wild universe of aliens, strange planets, and cosmic rarities!  Includes a light but robust system that not only resolves actions, but also enables GM-less and solo play modes! Runs on Motif, using the Motif Framework. Be sure to check out our Gold best-selling flagship title, the Motif Story Engine, GM-less and solo toolkit ("GM-ulator") for the Motif Game Framework  Official Motif SRD Add-On Officially part of the Motif Toolkit SRD as an add-on example build. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution license for hacks and derivatives, following the SRD license terms. Be sure to check out The Lost Road and Egregores for the other two ad...
	Eat Trash! Do Crime! (Raccoon Anarchy TTRPG) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	Welcome to Your Raccoon Life Eat Trash! Fill up your Trash Belly to perform feats from distracting a group to overcoming an impossible obstacles. Collect The Shiny! You have a faery-like Horde in which you can stash all the bits and pieces you collect. Do Crime! Discover your crime habits, from simple thievery to more complex or morally driven crimes. Look Like People! Use bits of The Shiny from your Horde to disguise yourself as people, operate vehicles, and more! World assistant system included to make playing low-prep, GM-less, or solo a breeze! Simple use-based skill advancement system. Fast playing unique Motif-based d6 system that measures attention drawn and degree of success, rather than pass/fail. Come live your best trashy crime-filled life!  Highlighted Runs On Motif rel...
	Egregores: The Creepypasta Storytelling Game (one-page storygame) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	Egregores: The Creepypasta Storytelling Game is a one-page storytelling and chat party game. Share your fragmented memories of shadowy figures, creepy places, and unnatural shows.  The forgotten, slumbering gods in the Void Beyond begin to stir and change the world. The past becomes strange and mutable. Memories define the reality of history, even changing evidence to fit the recollections. Egregores, the thought-forms and shared beliefs of people, are a gateway. Through "recovered" memories of creepypasta horrors, the gods of the Void Beyond find a way to be born into this world.  Those who remember are Touched and their group of friends are Doomed. This is the story of the horrible ends of those who receive the Touch of creepypasta memories and horrors, as well as the Doom that...
	Fleshwarp Gospel Regular price: $7.50 Bundle price: $2.37 Format: PDF	Object Zero beckons. A key system for medical technology has gone silent. Exports have stopped. The nearby research station has stopped replying. Supplies grow low and the technology is irreplaceable.  The dark promise of strange evolution. The system is warped in some kind of anomoly. Bizarre mutants, that were once perhaps people, stalk the half-lit corridors. Join us in the perpetual agony of joy. Not only face the mundane dangers of stress and wounds, but strange spiritual harms that drive your body and soul through unholy mutuations. You are dispatched with missions. Officially, you are to assess and stablize the situation, providing reports and restoring trade. But your true classifed mission is to recover Object Zero and capture Subject Zero before you run out of clon...
	For Treats! For Glory! Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	LIVE THAT KITTY LIFE! For Treats! For Glory! is a one page tabletop RPG about living that cat life. Avoid Boredom. Seek a balance of Calm and Stimulation. Do what you want to do and have cool kitty experiences.  RUNS ON MOTIF Simple d6 mechanic based on the Motif Framework. It answers both world questions and action resolution.  Create your kitty. Seek out the pleasures of being a kitty. Roll the dice to make things interesting and be surprised. Your grand quest is to get that satisfaction. Your cosmic goal is to be content. The only great plotline here is living that cat life! Proceeds go to the care and and comfort of a 17-year old kitty boy. Help him live his best life in his twilight years!  Released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.  YOU ARE FREE TO...
	Gobble. Gobble! GOBBLE! (Uplifted Turkey Rebellion Madness) Regular price: $3.00 Bundle price: $0.95 Format: PDF	The revolution gobbles on! Gobble. Gobble! GOBBLE!!! (GGG) is a casual game about uplifted awakened turkeys. Some contagious phenomena is awakening turkeys to intelligent self-awareness. Come to terms with your sentience, compelled to spread the uplift and awaken others.  Choose a mission of freedom or vengeance! You feel compelled to spread the awakening and uplift your brethren, but there is a key decision on your path. Will you pursue a colony, a safe settlement for your people? Or will you undertake a bloody path of revenge against the humans? The choice is yours! Uses a simple demo build of the Motif Game Framework, featuring a two dice hack of the Motif Story Engine (solo RPG toolkit) and a simple build of the Motif Action Engine (quickplay RPG system). All rolls only use two or t...
	Kaiju: Vroom Wojna Numeroun (Sacred Battle Supreme) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	You are one of the great Kaiju, the grandmothers of this world, ancient and unspeakable. Long have you slumbered peacefully, only awakening when the world falls off-balance. But now, you stir from slumber more and more often. A rage stirs deep inside you that sometimes grows beyond your control. Others of your kind defy your commands and rise to challenge your authority as Empress of Kaiju, Queen of Monsters. Something is horribly wrong with this world. Again, you have been awakened. The rage overwhelms you. You set out to the nearest Man-Scar (city) and wreck hell. Progress through a rampage to discover and confront what enraged you. Confront another ancient true Kaiju challenging your authority or set against you in a series of confrontrations. Resolutions provided for both win...
	Like I Give A BLEEP (The Life and Times of a Mad Scientist) Regular price: $6.00 Bundle price: $1.90 Format: PDF	Now a Copper Best Seller! Thank you for your support! Like I Give A BLEEP is GM-less, single-player roleplaying game focused on the wild lives of mad scientists and hyper-genius adventurers. Explore a world where you can do almost anything, but everything comes with a cost and unforeseen consequeces rule the day.  Whether human or alien, become a master of parascience and violating so-called natural limits. Portrary characters like everyone's favorite doctor, fan favorite grumpy grandpa, and other rule-bending inventors, thinkers, and researchers!  Genre and style flexible! As easily play a straight-faced game of serious ethical consideratitons as a wild, surrealist comic romp through time and space. Emulate your favorite mad scientist and wild inventor-adventurer cartoons, movies...
	Motif Character Engine (Player and Character Emulation) Regular price: $7.50 Bundle price: $2.37 Format: PDF	Now an Electrum Best Seller! Thank you for your support! Motif Character Engine is a companion product to the Motif Story Engine It provides a dice system and guidance for emulating characters and players Enhance your solo and GM-less experiences!  Add characters to your main group with ease. Emulate players to round out parties and play groups. More easily play RPGs alone that rely on full groups or group interaction. Turn your solo play experience into a solo GM experience!  Emulate players and characters to GM your own solo game. Play through pre-generated adventures with a sense of mystery and suspense driven by the uncertainty of the oracle system. Try out new games and modules on the fly. Playtest games in development. Patches and play guidance will be expanded over ...
	Motif Story Engine (Solo and GM-Lite Roleplaying Toolkit) Regular price: $12.00 Bundle price: $3.80 Format: PDF	Now a DriveThruRPG Platinum Best Seller!!! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support! <3 This Engine is a system I would describe as a true "Ask the GM" system. --- DTRPG Review [I]f this is what the future of solo looks like, it is very promising indeed. --- /r/Solo_Roleplaying comment Motif Story Engine is a solo play oracle, an add-on solo RPG system. It provides a dice system and guidance for playing most existing RPGs alone and in small groups without a formal game moderator. Enjoy your favorite roleplaying games alone!  Play RPGs without the need for game moderator to handle the rules and generate the world. The dice oracle answers questions you would normally ask your GM. Skip the heavy lifting of prep and jump right in!  Whether you are playing alone or i...
	Motif Toolkit SRD (Motif Open License Reference) Regular price: $10.00 Bundle price: $3.17 Format: PDF	Open License Motif SRD As requested, an open license system reference document for Built Using the Motif Framework tools and Runs On Motif licensed games! Create your own system neutral tools or brand new TTPRGs based on Motif! Uses the very open terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license. You may create and publish your own Motif products, as a fan or as a publisher, without cost or additional permission. This title is free without obligation, but any support for the develop of Motif and SRD materials is appreciated! There are also two product logos and phrases authorized for use with third party Motif products. You may choose "Runs On Motif Licensed" or "Built Using the Motif Framework". Logos and details included with this SRD. A different kind of SRD This document is not a l...
	Motif World Engine (Worldbuilding Scene & Setting Seed Generator) Regular price: $7.50 Bundle price: $2.37 Format: PDF	Now a Silver Best Seller! Thank you for your support! Motif World Engine is a companion product to the Motif Story Engine It provides guidance and flavors for generating worlds and settings "the Motif way" using a d6 based oracle system. Enhance your session zero and prep experiences!  Generate seeds for enemies, loot, vehicles, and more! Guidance for worldbuilding as a group. Understanding how to use the Motif approach to build out your worlds and scenes. Patches and play guidance will be expanded over time.  MWE was originally designed as a complement to the Motif Story Engine.  The Motif World Engine is a modular setting and scene seed generator: Relies on a series of "flavors" to help seed worlds and scenes. Uses a defaut backbone of 3d6 oracle rolls, just like the Motif Story Engine...
	No Angels Live Here (Occult Detective Agency RPG) Regular price: $10.00 Bundle price: $3.17 Format: PDF	Now a Silver Best Seller! Thank you for your support. No Angels Live Here is GM-less roleplaying game focused on  the unique mission of occult detectives to face down the supernatural influence of the Dark. A neo-noir weird fiction roleplaying game of temptation, dark powers, and determined investigators standing as the last bulwark against the spirits of the Dark. Become a determined occult detective and form your own agency!  Uses a complete unified build of the Motif Game Framework, featuring the Motif Story Engine (solo RPG toolkit) and the Motif Action Engine (quickplay RPG system). The main rolls only use three standard six-sided dice. It produces interesting answers and rich results without complex charts to reference. A player facing system where only players roll, with NPCs and...
	Once We Were Beautiful (a storygame of fading Fair Folk) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: Watermarked PDF	Once We Were Beautiful is a two-page storytelling and chat party game. Become one of the last of the Fair Folk telling their final stories, trying to build a Legacy before Death claims them and they Fade forever.  Those Who Were Beautiful gather together for one last conclave. Death approaches and the world grows beyond them. Their fading minds struggle to recall old memories. They tell of the desperate final measures they have taken recently.  The Last Queen of the Fair Folk sacrificed herself, her royal blood forcing Death to make an accommodation. Her people were given a choice: Live forever untouched by Death, but without memory and forgotten. Accept your end, but leave a lasting mark that will be remembered for ages. Or cease to struggle, receiving the blessing of your full memory s...
	SC911 Special Crimes 911 (Emergencies in a World of Monsters) Regular price: $6.00 Bundle price: $1.90 Format: PDF	SC911: Special Crimes 911 focuses on emergency call agents Monsters are real and SC911 takes emergency calls involving them. Players take on the roll of special call teams managing calls and directing emergency responses. A high pressure game of split-second decisions and relentless time Time passed in real life is the time passed when on active calls. Despite the numerous resources at your disposal, you have no ability to directly help. Calls can inflict serious trauma on the call agents. Trauma is not only internally real, but manifests itself in the world. As agents take on traumas, their body also shows weeping wounds and spirits will be drawn to haunt them. Uses a simple, familiar 2d6 system for quick resolution. A flexible core structure allowing for modular add-ons (downtime...
	The Lost Road Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	Welcome to the Lost Road. You become lost in all in things. In your life. Sense of self. And more. One day you lost your way and became truly Lost. Finding a Door, you escaped the labirynth you found yourself in. Now you are on the Road, a strange realm connected to all worlds. A short 6 page mini-RPG. Runs on Motif, using the Motif Framework. Be sure to check out our Platinum best-selling flagship title, the Motif Story Engine, GM-less and solo toolkit ("GM-ulator") for the Motif Game Framework.  Official Motif SRD Add-On Officially part of the Motif Toolkit SRD as an add-on example build. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution license for hacks and derivatives, following the SRD license terms. Also check out Egregores and Dinosaur Wizards In Space for the other two add-ons. ...
	The Princess and The Dragon Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	Our Hero You are Our Hero, a renowned knight. The Princess convinced the King to betroth you. The country celebrated your impending union. The ladies of the court flew into wedding planning. But then the Princess was taken captive by the feared Dragon. Exactly according to plan. The Princess In truth, you have no interest in the Princess. She is a shallow, intolerable creature. And the wrong gender to boot. She is a bigoted thing and believes she can “turn” you on your wedding night. The thought filled you with dread. The Dragon Your love affair with the Dragon would never be accepted, so you arranged to be “defeated” by the Dragon and run away together to a faraway land. Unfortunately, plans rarely survive contact with reality. It turns out the Princess is a powerful witch and has t...
	We Came In Peace (Alien survival-horror solo RPG) Regular price: $6.00 Bundle price: $1.90 Format: PDF	We Came In Peace is solo roleplaying game focused on an alien who came bring Unity, but found a nightmare world of Splinters. A weird fiction survival-horror roleplaying game where you struggle to rebuild yourself while holding onto your true self. The sickness of this world corrupts you, even as you are restored. Survive this terror planet and warn yourself of the danger!  Uses a complete unified build of the Motif Game Framework, featuring the Motif Story Engine (solo RPG toolkit) and the Motif Action Engine (quickplay RPG system). The main rolls only use three standard six-sided dice. It produces interesting answers and rich results without complex charts to reference. A player facing system where only players roll, with NPCs and circumstances having consequences for player ch...
	You Can Be Trash Too! (Punk film and transgressive cinema emulator) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $1.58 Format: PDF	You Can Be Trash Too! Yes, you can! Live your seediest, most transgressive life possible! Explore a trash-punk world of grimy underbellies, inspirational gutters, and transcendent indulgence! Most people suppress their desires or hide them in shame. Others (who people like us call “Puritans”) try to maintain a façade of fake normality, an illusion of happiness. But not you. You are trailblazing garbage, a prophet of subversion. Inspired by Trash Cinema This is a world like the Greasy Strangler, John Waters filmography, No Wave films, grindhouse movies, and other trangressive art.  Be the fabulous disaster you always wanted to be! Honey Heist Hack This game is an unofficial, unapproved Honey Heist hack. We have no endorsements. Blame nobody but us for this gutterpunk 1-page RPG...